Meet the Faculty at Texas Executive Education

Luis L. Martins

Associate Professor
Department of Management

Ph.D., New York University
M.Phil., New York University

Luis L. Martins is an associate professor of management at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining UT in January, 2010, he was on the faculty of the College of Management at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and before that at the School of Business at the University of Connecticut. He earned his Ph.D. in Management and Organizational Behavior from the Stern School of Business at New York University.

Dr. Martins conducts research and consults on the role of managerial and group cognitive factors in performance, innovation, and change. His research has appeared in several top management journals, such as Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Organization Science, and has been covered in major newspapers such as the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune. In 2009, he won the Journal of Management’s Best Paper Award for his research on the dynamics of virtual teams.

Dr. Martins has taught innovation management, change management, managing teams, leadership, and organizational behavior, in undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, and executive programs. He has won several teaching awards, most recently the 2008 Professor of the Program Award from the EMBA program and the 2009 Professor of the Year Award from the Evening MBA program at the Georgia Tech College of Management. His consulting and executive development clients include Accenture, Coca Cola, FBI Crime Labs, General Electric, Lockheed Martin, McKesson, NASA, Powerwave Technologies, and Waffle House.